The Health and Social Services Portfolio

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:08, 14 November 2018

I can assure the Member that I have discussed the whole issue with the Cabinet Secretary for health. It will be for the health board to put forward the business cases required to deliver its preferred strategy. Of course, given the controversial nature of some of the proposals, it is possible that Welsh Ministers may be called upon to take final decisions on the plans. I have to be careful in what I say, as I know very well from my days as health Minister in that context. What I can say to the Member is this: if it is possible to reach an agreement on a way forward on health services in that part of Wales, then the Welsh Government will look positively at our ability to support the health board in developing those business cases to put that agreed plan into practice.